The gay movement started in 1969 during the raid of discriminated minorities that included students, black and Hispanic drag queens, the homeless, and hustlers in the Greenwich Village Stonewall Inn. Once word got around, demonstrators started taking to the streets of New York and challenging the status quo birthing the Gay Liberation movement that symbolized a new era of freedom to people who never felt free before. There wasn't much recognition or significant progress, but until the 1980s was when things started getting a whole lot messier. By 1981 over 1000 people have died from the understudied HIV/AIDS that sparked panic in the gay community for no medicine could cure even the richest gay man on the planet. The worst part was that not even the United States government failed to recognize this epidemic until 198r when President Reagan did say the word AIDs. What is threatening the community to this day is the expensive treatments available that only prolong the life of an AIDS inflicted person and the social taboo that society is still infecting of the LGBT's life not being worth the same as a white straight man.